This project seek to advance the implementation of interdisciplinary dialogic argumentation through supportive teachers' professional...
Leading team: Prof. Anat Yarden
Teaching materials for the ninth-graders' excellence classes. Promoting scientific literacy, mathematic literacy and...
Leading team: Prof. Anat Yarden Dr. Bat Shahar Dorfman
In light of these difficulties, teacher training courses have been conducted, digital teaching materials have been developed,...
Leading team: Prof. Anat Yarden Dr. Merav Siani
Examining the impact of a digital teaching unit using the Teaching for Transformative Experiences in Science (TTES) model on the...
An interactive activity based on a real lab-evolution experiemnt. The students follow the stages of experiment, analyze the results...
The Teacher Center supports the professional development of biology teachers and develops up-to-date teaching materials. The...
Leading team: Dr. Ohad Levkovich – Director of The National Center for Biology Teachers Prof. Anat Yarden – Academic Adviser Dr. Cippora Hofman – Coordinator of Biological Communities Dr. Gilat Brill – Editor of the Bulletin for Biology Teachers Dr. Karin Halevi – Member of the staff of the National Center and material developer Adi Poyarkov – Site Management Team Moshera Atawna Dafna Azoulay
PeTeL (Personalized Teaching and Learning) Biology is a MOODLE-based learning and teaching environment designed for high school...
Leading team: Prof. Yarden Anat Bar Carmel Raibstein Naomi Yocheved
Biology teacher communities are a place for sharing and innovative and creative thinking about difficulties and challenges in...
Leading team: Prof. Anat Yarden – Head of The Department of Science Teaching Dr. Moria Arieli – Community Leader Moderator Dina Bartov – Community Leader Moderator Dr. Cippora Hofman – Coordinator of Biological Communities Dr. Ohad Levkovich – Director of National Center of Biology and Environmental Sciences.
This project aims to improve cancer literacy via cancer education. Our group is developing interactive instructional materials...
Leading team: Dr. Haskel Ittah Michal Gur Arie Livni Alcasid
This project aims to characterize the way in which biological mechanisms are presented in public media and the way laypeople understand...
Leading team: Dr. Michal Haskel-Ittah Shanny Mishal
This project aims to track the first signs of biological mechanistic reasoning in elementary school students. Through interviews...
Leading team: Dr. Michal Haskel Ittah
Asking questions is a fundamental scientific practice which can direct students’ learning and knowledge construction, foster...
The Life Sciences Group has previously developed a concept for supplementing the study of biology with scientific research articles...
The Life Sciences group has characterized the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of biology teachers, and its possible expansion...
The Life Sciences group is currently developing learning materials according to the biological aspects of the new syllabus for...
This project seek to advance the notion of socially aware and responsible science through scientific inquiry of socio-scientific...
The Information Revolution has brought on the emergence of bioinformatics: an emerging interdisciplinary field which encompasses...
The “Genetics on the Fly” website was developed by the biology group in the Weizmann Institute’s Department...